Be Careful Please

[mrwags]

WORST VIRUS EVER --- CNN ANNOUNCED
A new virus has just been discovered that has been
classified by Microsoft as the most destructive ever. This virus was
discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee . This virus simply destroys
Sector Zero from the hard disk, where vital information for its functioning
are stored. This virus acts in the following manner:It sends itself
automatically to all contacts on your list with the title: 'A Card for
You'.As soon as the supposed virtual card is opened the computer freezes so
that the user has to reboot. When the ctrl+alt+ del keys or the reset
button are pressed, the virus destroys Sector Zero, thus permanently
destroying the hard disk. Yesterday in just a few hours this virus caused
panic in New York , according to news broadcast by CNN. This alert was
received by an employee of Microsoft itself.So don't open any mails with
subject: 'A Virtual Card for You.' As soon as you get the mail, delete it
!! Even if you know the sender !!!



FYI
Mr.Wags

 

[Space Ghost]

Thanks for the heads up wags!

 

[Guest]

thanks mr wags!

 

[mrwags]

The main reason I felt compelled to post this was the simple fact that I received an e-mail just like this saying it was from a trusted member I have known for years who's computer was infected. It's new and improved web shit and it's not to be toyed with.

And TY

Mr.Wags

 

[Guest]

This site says its a hoax

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/virtualcard.asp

 

[gmb]

Another reason why I love *nix

 

[Guest]

Another reason why I love *nix

Yep.... an old $60 P3 dell workstation , old used hard drive for free, Ubuntu and tor ..... priceless.

 

[OGRaq]

crazy. i've never ran antivirus ... been like 14 years now and never got a virus.

guess some people are just stupider than others. use common sense, jeez

 

[patrickbateman]

macbook pro - virus free, ahh love it

pc - run free AVG for years with no problems ever.

 

[Rabies]

Man lonely bored college kids.? I can't score a date so, i'll write a virus instead. I was far too busy in college to waste time on ignorance. How sad..

 

[karma-shmarma]

this is old, dont mots peeps knwo about this already?

 

[Siddartha]

Man lonely bored college kids.? I can't score a date so, i'll write a virus instead. I was far too busy in college to waste time on ignorance. How sad..

Are you shitting me? Ignorance??? Writing a virus isn't something thats terribly easy to do, far from ignorant. Misguided, maybe, ignorant, almost certainly not. Lol, can you tell what I did in college?

Gutsy for life!!!

 

[B4O2N0G]

Damnit...Im pretty sure I just got this virus. The virus warning said it has a program that gathers emails and sends the viruses and automatically freezes the persons computer.I have downloaded antivirus 2008 and it detected 481 viruses!! Any help from someone on here would be appreciated.I dont want someone to fuck up my computer.Piece of shit viruses..

Edit..I restored my computer to a few days ago and everything seems to be fine now..must of been that damn virus infected porn

 

[Verite]

Any old computer tech will tell ya you cant destroy sector zero. You can overwrite it possibly but you usually need special software that boots directly from disk. Theres no way to overwrite it when you are running the op system. Same way windows wont let you run FDISK or let you format your primary drive while you are running windows from it.

#1 place viruses hide is in user set protected areas like the System Restore area. SR is worthless 99% of the time and isnt protected by anti-virus software. The only way to protect yourself there is to turn it off.

Probably the #1 threat out there is one of the many variants of the VUNDO virus. It hooks itself by attaching a DLL to a system needed program like winlogon.exe that runs itself in safemode too. The only way to rid it is by getting a custom search and destroy program that will let windows kill the system needed process before detaching the DLL linked virus.